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I'd been wondering if I'd actually end up going anywhere this summer, but suddenly these things all fell into place!
USA1550 Fri Jul 25 2008 dep KSFO 1200 arr KPHX 1402 AWE0320 Mon Jul 28 2008 dep KPHX 0724 arr KLAS 0836 AWE0466 Mon Jul 28 2008 dep KLAS 0928 arr KSFO 1103
Phoenix to visit family (grandparents' 65th anniversary!, etc). Going to be hot as hell, but hopefully also monsoony -- dust storms, big clouds, wind, flash floods! Flying US Airways one last time before they completely melt. It was slightly cheaper than United, but I have the feeling by the time they're done nickel and dime'ing me, it'll have been the same. At least I get to pass through Las Vegas! I can gamble between gates.
UAL0501 Fri Aug 15 2008 dep KSFO 1012 arr KSAN 1151 UAL0746 Mon Aug 18 2008 dep KSAN 1857 arr KSFO 2025
cpratt/ danlmarmot's wedding in San Diego.
UAL0914 Sat Sep 13 2008 dep KSFO 0755 arr LFPG 0655 (14 Sep) [plane change at KIAD] UAL0915 Tue Sep 23 2008 dep LFPG 1225 arr KIAD 1449 UAL0233 Tue Sep 23 2008 dep KIAD 1700 arr KSFO 1945
France! I've never been. Haven't actually bought the tickets yet, but these are likely. The United options are a 777 via KIAD or a 767 via KORD. Considering my last 767 experience out of KORD involved a dead APU and a six hour delay, I think I'll avoid that... Anyway, Paris for 8 nights (also with cpratt, etc); thinking of extending the trip on one side and hit up somewhere else while I'm still in the mood to waste dollars on euros. Where should I go?
Also hoping to split a trip to Tokyo with BT KK sometime in the Fall... Current Location: san francisco, ca, usa.
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Incident: British Airways A319 at Belgrade on June 30th 2008, too much curry By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, Jul 2nd 2008 13:39Z, last updated Wednesday, Jul 2nd 2008 13:42Z
A British Airways Airbus A319-100, registration G-EUOF thought to perform flight BA889 from Belgrade (Serbia) to London Heathrow,EN (UK), had already been boarded, when a strong smell on board stopped takeoff preparations.
Passengers disembarked normally, British Airways said. The flight was cancelled, the airplane ferried to London the following day. The passengers were rebooked onto other flights.
Belgrade Authorities reported, that the passengers panicked in fear of a terrorist gas attack, continuing, that emergency workers with oxygen masks were dispatched to help passengers off the airplane.
The airport authority initially assumed, that a canister containing some acidic chemicals may have burst open in the cargo hold, until they detected a large container with curry spices in the cargo department, that was identified as the source of the smell. avherald.com has good aviation incident reports scraped from around the world, just wish they had an RSS feed. It's actually sort of frightening the number of random little (but still cause diversions/cancellations) incidents that happen daily. Though I suppose there's significantly less if you remove all the obvious troublemakers (IL-76's, Tu-154's, etc)... Current Mood: pining for curry
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